Purity

Title: Purity

Author: Jonathan Franzen

Genre: Historical? Political?

Time: 14.7 hours
2015 Book Challenge: a book with more than 500 pages

Bookworms Unite

now I know why Belle stayed... I'd probably do the same thing if it means I can have all the books I want.

A Hundred Summers

Title: A Hundred Summers

Author: Beatriz Williams

Genre: Romance, Historical

Time: 4.3 hours

Only A Kiss

Title: Only A Kiss

Author: Mary Balogh

Genre: Historical Romance

Time: Unfinished

The Secret Life of Violet Grant

Title: The Secret Life of Violet Grant

Author: Beatriz Williams

Genre: Historical

Time: 4.5 hours

Undercover

 

Title: Undercover

Author: Danielle Steele

Genre: Romance

Time: 4.6 hours

MMA Romance Novels

My hubby always complains how those Greek Billionaires in my romance novels have 6-pack abs when they're very busy in the boardroom running companies.  Well, he can't complain anymore with these hot , buff men.  Apparently, MMA is a new genre in romance novels.  But it's not entirely new to me.  I've already read an MMA-theme romance book 2 years ago, Seducing Cinderalla by Gina Maxwell but I wasn't into MMA yet at that time so I'm kinda curious to read one of these now that I've started following UFC, One FC, etc.

Three Wishes

Title: Three Wishes

Author: Liane Moriarty

Genre: Humor

Time: 6.8 hours

2015 Book Challenge: Finished in One Sitting

Tiny Little Thing

Title: Tiny Little Thing

Author: Beatriz Williams

Genre: Romance, Historical

Time: 4.8 hours

Brown-Eyed Girl

Title: Brown-Eyed Girl

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Genre: Romance

Time: did not finish 

First of all, I would like to say that I love, love, love Lisa Kleypas.  She is one of the few authors that I collect the “real” books of.  She is the author that I re-read books of.  Some of her books I have re-read at like 5 to 7 times!  Yes, she is that good.  When she switched to Contemporary Romance from Historical Romance, I would say that I would prefer her earlier historical romance books.  But her Contemporary Romances were still very good.  I have read all her books.  So I am now constantly checking if she has published any new books.   

So I “ran out of books to read” (I usually find like 10-15 books then read them all and when I’m done with them or don’t feel like reading the ones left, I would then look for a new set of 10-15 books to blow through) so I was looking for new set to read when I discovered that Lisa Kleypas wrote a new book.  It felt like a delightful surprise.  You know that feeling you get when you “discover “money on the pockets of you jeans you haven’t worn for a while.  This was it. 

As I started reading Brown-Eyed Girl, I was waiting for the “hook”.  You know that part of the book where the author starts to draw you into that new world?  Well, as a progressed, it never came.  In fact, it was worse than no hook.. it was awful!  But it cannot be.. this is Lisa Kleypas!  So I trudged on.. and on.. but there was no way around it.  It really was awful.  I even thought that maybe I got the wrong ebook by mistake.  So I decided to search the net to see what the others thought of the book.. and I wasn’t imagining it.  the consensus was, it sucked. 

After reading the bad reviews, I decided to march on.  It’s Lisa Kleypas, it couldn’t be that bad, could it?  But try as I might, I just couldn’t do it.  I didn’t finish the book.  The characters were just soo annoying and the storyline dragged on.  But the book might say Lisa Kleypas but this was not a Lisa Kleypas book.  I truly hope this was a one-off kinda thing because, as I’ve said, I really, really love Lisa Kleypas.  With Lilian Jackson Braun and Jackie Collins passing away, I have fewer authors left who I collect books of.